There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThere are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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